Happy Birthday: George Raft (1901–1980)

Born: September 26, 1901 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: November 24, 1980 (age 79) in Los Angeles, California, USA

[In a 1936 interview, discussing former jobs before getting into the acting profession] My one ambition then was to drive a horse. So I got a job driving a delivery wagon for a large grocery company. I drove up and down Ninth avenue like I was daffy. I raced all the other delivery wagons. I gave all the boys rides. Deliveries were always late, customers complained, and I was fired.